Saturday, May 9, 2015

Ridley's Beleive It Or Not May 9 History National Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—May 9,
2015 Trust your Mothers’
Day Weekend is proving to be a great one
and your tasks have been completed and you are now ready for the weekend. As
always, I hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids of
interest, a music video of Joyrideand a relevant quote from Rabbi Sacks, looking
forward to a few butterscotch brownies, blessedwith a positive attitude even though you know you will have to wade
through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the knowledge that
if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like Mothers’ Day,
birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can
provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the
event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.1. National Letter Carriers
Stamp Out Hunger Day—jokes about snail mail in the
hyper speed world of emails notwithstanding, the Post Office does get it right
some time and today is one of those times as the letter carriers will pick up
food left next to the mailbox for sorting and delivering to people in need. Definitely
a great cause!

2.National Babysitters’ Day—commemorating on the Saturday before Mothers’ Day the indispensable
contributions that babysitters make to the joy and happiness of couples with
young children living far from parents or siblings with children. Without them
we might have a few fewer numbers of mothers.3. 1991 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1991 on a brief one week run Joyride by Roxette, a Swedish duo formed in 1986 that has sold over
60 million records worldwide. Here is a
link to a music video of Roxette performing Joyride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCorJG9mubk

4. National Butterscotch
Brownie Day—scelebrating a great snack that has been
around since the 19th Century long before chocolate brownies and
worthy of respect for Blondes as dumb blonde jokes notwithstanding they have a
brownie named after them—“blondie.”

5. And the Good News Is--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1972 Dana Perino,
cohost of my favorite news program, The Five, best selling author of a book worth
reading-And the News Is—, former press secretary for President George W.
Bush, who set the standard the press secretaries for President Obama have
failed to meet, and more importantly the owner of one very good looking dog—Jasper.

On
this day in a. 1887
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened in London, England.

b.
1960 in a let the good times roll, the FDA approved Searle’s Enovid as the
world’s first oral contraceptive pill.

c. 1961 Newton Minow the chairman of the
FCC appointed by President Kennedy gave a speech of the quality of television
programming in which he called television the “great wasteland.” It still is and
growing worse with more commercials every day.

d. 1980 in what could have been a Fast and
Furious movie but sadly not; at Norco, California 5 masked gunmen tried to rob a
Security Pacific National Bank. In the shootout and chase that followed, two
gunmen and one officer were killed and thirty three police and civilian cars
damaged.

e. 2001 in a riot that makes fights at a
hockey game look like a picnic a soccer game in Accra, Ghana 123 fans were
killed in a stampede to escape tear gas fired by police to break up a riot
cause by a bad call by the referees.

Reflections
on ending hunger: “Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population –
still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition.
This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread
of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.” Jonathan Sacks, noted
rabbi and philospher born in 1948. If you replaced Great Britain with “the
United States” his quote would be even more damning of our dietary habits while
the less fortunate go hungry; hope you pup out some nonperishable food for the
letter carrier today.

About Me

Raised in a small fishing village in Alaska, Petersburg,in the 40's and 50's. Returned in the 60's to fish commercially on purse seiners for six summers. Graduate of Stanford class of 69 with great distinction, Yale Law School class of 72, For many years an experienced, efficient, and creative lawyer and adviser providing venture capital, corporate and transactional legal services to start-ups and emerging private and public companies. Published poet, customized poems for memorable events, creator of Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day in History (daily factoids, holidays, quotes and often a short poem), and daily tweets in 140 iambic bytes on news of day and in the process of publishing North to Alaska--Islands of Stability in Seas of Change. Contact me have created a unique customized poem for any memorable event or to impress a loved one networking events. mridley@octechlaw.com, www.octechlaw.com, linkedin.com/in/octechlaw.com, twitter.com/alaskanpoet,
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